The Week: March 16th — 22nd

This week’s Photo of the Day, Etc includes:

March 16th: A ragged butterfly — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/the-butterflies-and-the-bee

March 17th: An El Camino on El Camino Real — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/el-camino-on-el-camino-real

March 18th: Different views of the Sandias — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/a-different-perspective

March 19th: A lonely church — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/lonely-church

March 20th: A snuggly kitten — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/snuggle-attack

March 21st: Horsing around — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/horse-play

March 22nd: Arco Iris — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/rainbow

The Week — March 9th through March 15th

This week’s Photo of the Day, Etc includes:

March 9th: A new wall — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/the-wall

March 10th: Irish Soda Bread and a personal record — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/irish-soda-bread-and-a-new-personal-record

March 11th: Kittens playing in boxes — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/cats-just-wanna-have-fun

March 12th: Construction progress — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/hole-eee-hole-eee-hole-eee

March 13th: Another stair climbing record — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/upstairs-downstairs

March 14th: Tulips — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/shades-of-red-yellow-green

March 15th: The old folk kitties — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/the-old-folk-kitties

A Thought on Following

Various people have noted issues with bloglovin for getting notifications for my blog posts. But I was thinking, no one needs bloglovin, RSS feeds or email notifications if they are really interested in following my blog. Simply bookmark http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog in your favorite browser, and set a daily recurring reminder in your calendar for when you want to be reminded to check my blog. I post a blog everyday at 12:01 am without fail.

Photo of the Day, Etc has moved

I moved Photo of the Day, Etc to T&L Photos at http://photos.tandlphotos.com. You can see my daily photos, blog and more at T&L Photos. You can subscribe to the blog via RSS. You can also follow photos.tandlphotos.com at bloglovin.com.

To get email notifications of my daily blog posts, sign into bloglovin.com and paste http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog into the Search Blogs field on bloglovin.com. It will find T & L Photo: Blog. Click on the box with +Follow and tell it to send you email notifications of my blog posts.

The End

DSCF3200

I went out early in the morning and I saw my shadow, long and lanky, as the sun rose over the Sandias. And my shadow asked: “Why do you continue to put up with it — the unwanted upgrades and continuous frustrations you’ve been having with WordPress, Adobe products and other post-processing apps that have been causing you so much trouble? You have other choices you know! You don’t have to be stuck in the same routine like Bill Murry in ‘Groundhog Day’ experiencing déjà vu all over again, and again, and again…”

My shadow had a point, and I remembered that the site I host T&L Photos on had added a blog feature as an option, which wasn’t available when I set up Photo of the Day, Etc. on WP almost five years ago. I logged on to T&L Photos, checked out the blog feature, added it to the menu, made some changes to the look and feel of the site, and I have officially moved my daily blog to http://photos.tandlphotos.com.

As I thought about it there are several advantages to moving my daily blog to T&L Photos, besides getting away from the constant frustrations I’ve been having with WordPress. I no longer need to process and resize my photos for WordPress. I can upload full sized jpegs to the blog on T&L Photos, which will allow me to start making the photos available for sale.  I only have to manage one site for both photos and the blog. Since T&L Photos was originally set up for both me and Laurie, long before I started blogging, she can include her sketches and paintings along with her photos.

I’ll see you on my new, old site.

DSCF3193

 

More Progress

GrocerySite1-26-15
Site of the downtown grocery store complex on Monday, January 26, 2015
DSCF3155
Faye and Jay climbed to the 16th floor of the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building in 2:46:30 on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. They were a minute faster than Bruce and me.

 

DSCF3161
Looked like they had dug down to the water table on Wednesday, January 28, 2015.

 

DSCF3165
Bruce and I set personal records climbing the 16 floors on Thursday, January 29, 2015 in 3:27:50. Thursday was our 10th climb up the stairs at the New Mexico Bank & Trust Building.

 

IMG_3789
Friday, January 30, 2015 was cold and wet with a mix of rain and snow falling most of the day. The front end loaders, grader, tractor and back hoe got the day off on Friday.

 

GrocerySite1-30-15
Panorama of Downtown Albuquerque on a gray, wet Friday, January 30, 2015. The New Mexico Bank & Trust Building is in the center of the photo.